Newcastle Were Outstanding – They Attacked With Flair

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

2:56pm Sunday, January 11th, 2015

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Well would you believe it – former Arsenal star Paul Merson has praised Newcastle United’s performance against Chelsea yesterday at Stamford Bridge, when we were the better side in the first half but we tailed off in the second half, but Merson believes Newcastle were simply so unlucky.

Remy Cabella in action yesterday From the start in yesterday’s game we attacked Chelsea, and had we had a bit more luck – particularly with Remy Cabella and Moussa Sissoko – we could have and probably should have scored before Oscar put Chelsea ahead just before half time.

Diego Costa added a second on the hour mark as Chelsea upped their game in the second half.

This is what Paul Merson told Sky Sports – talking about Newcastle:

“They were outstanding, they attacked with flair, Chelsea couldn’t get going. First of all they had Remy Cabella who was on fire.”

“They were isolating John Terry, usually, you get good protection from the back at Chelsea but they didn’t and they were getting into little pockets and Cabella whizzed past him, great shot and save.”

“Sissoko runs at Terry, goes past him and hits the post. There’s another one Gouffran plays it across to Perez in the middle, they were so unlucky.”

Caretaker manager John Carver prepared the team well last week for this game, and with a little bit of luck we could have got something out of the game yesterday.

But it’s obvious we do have some very good players in our team, and if we do get a new head coach in next week or the week after – we could do well through the rest of this season and set ourselves up for a good season next term.

It could be that Newcastle appoint former Lyon coach Remi Garde soon – and it seems he is Newcastle’s number one choice for the job – but talks are ongoing with the 48 year-old.

152 comments so far

yet we can’t keep our contracted players discussing anything related to their employer with the media?

Sissoko can f*** right off because he’s been crap for the better part of two years. CL winner? Please. A star in our team, but if you ask Carroll and Enrique and Barton, Ba, and Remy and Cabaye, not always cracked up to be what you think you are, or think you deserve.

But was anyone else alarmed at how slow he is? He showed some nice trickery to get by some players, but come second half, he’d have 10 yards on a defender and pull the ball back because he knew his pace wouldn’t carry him

A bit like Loic Remy; for whatever reason we just assumed them to be fast (perpetuated no less by various outlets and *cough* blogs that seem to size players up with such surety without actually having seen them play). Shocked at how slow Loic turned out to be. Equally so with Cabella

Not great to hear Sissoko say this publicly but we all know that any player with ambition, who played in the world cup, will not want to stick around in a club that is happy to be mid table and not challenge for anything.

Important thing is to keep him now and hope that Garde or whoever comes in (there’s a big If there) has managed to persuade Ashley that a winning mentality is essential and can lead to bigger things for Newcastle United.

It’s a difficult balance I find. Some players don’t want to do any defending which is not acceptable in the modern game, everyone must defend.

The difference is how they defend. Pardew expected our lads to almost sit on top of the fullback which doesn’t help. They need to press high and follow the runners back when the opposition fullbacks bomb on not just aimlessly sit in our half doing nothing….the top players do it so our average players should too.

Sour grapes some of you on here,Sissoko has every right to leave the club as do any others that want to achieve something as a player. As much as we would like it they’ll never achieve anything playing for us in this regime.

Arsenal have been missing a player of Sissoko’s strength since Viera left em. He’s more than good enough to play for them as he’s quality in our side but with a team of quality players around him at Arsenal and a top coach then he would do great I’d say. CL every season,they won’t win it but he’d be in the comp every year. Remy sits on the bench at Chelsea and Cabaye at PSG but Sissoko would get into the Gunners team.

They play with a flat four,a diamond and many times three in midfield. I think he’d get in their team in many positions as Walcott,Ramsey and the likes are often injured and the gunners are always in all comps this play loads more games and need to rotate the team.

TS…the experience I got from playing football as a prof. was that in reality you cannot expect a football to be a racehorse that runs up and down the flanks.

…the game is played on should high intensity these days that not many players can do that and usually we end up with these flair players using all their energy defending and not doing what they are suppose to.

All I am going to say on this mate is we have had this discussion before and I still believe most British clubs has gotten this wrong.

There are the exceptions of course.

Regardless of what I think of Carver as a potential new Head Coach I think he has gotten it right about Cabella and using him more as a free roaming player (something most English managers wouldn’t dare to do)

Sage Agree with you that it’s better to be like Scholes was through his career,never talked to the press and kept himself out of the limelight. Although he was in a team where he won something every year 😉

Sissoko maybe a very good player for us, but he would spend the majority of his career warming a bench at any top club. But if that’s what he wants and Cashley won’t say no that’s how the regime works.

To add to that comment….wingers/attackers need to track back sometimes, not all the time.

If all the time you invite pressure on yourself, if you leave your attackers up the pitch you can counter quicker and the opposition then need to gamble with players when they attack….if they attack with too many then you could catch them on the break very easily.

You here these stories of Players dreaming of playing for other clubs, the latest being Sissoko, oh yea, wants another pay day for himself and his agent, why cant they keep their gobs shut, this fella Sissoko is the ultimate hot n cold performer, his head drags across the floor when things are not going his way, good ball bad ball all the time, good run bad run, no consistancy, 2 goal and an assist, this season, and he is going on like every club are gagging for him.

He went missing the last two seasons didnt he firstly when we were battling relegation he got a mystery injury, then the world cup were he was scared to get injured so imo faked an injury again, its took him 18 month to get favour at the toon, now he is looking at the frigan gooners and their George 4th dandy players, am just sick of it, who the hell do they think they are, he can go and fcuk right off for me.

At chelsea hazard and willian are up and down all game and contribute a hell of a lot going forward. Same as sachez at arsenal, covers so much ground and wins the ball back a lot, still their top scorer.

Rooney as a foward is the same.

I agree that they probably contribute more goals/assists if they don’t defend as much, but the benefit they give the team by defending is worth it…just need the right balance.

The problem with Sissoko at NUFC is that he is a big fish in a small pond. He stands out because of the average quality of players around him. He’d come back to reality with a bump at Arsenal. If he is set on leaving he must go, but there’s no reason in the world why he should go mid season. His leaving in the summer could be made on the condition that he continues to play for the team to his best ability from now until then.

Garde, 1/6 wi skybet for the toon job, everyone is saying good things about the bloke, got all the right attributes.

Most have no doubt seen his record at Lyon, very decent, and the fact that both PSG and Monaco came on to the scene with shed loads of bit probably explains the 4th n 5th place finishes in his last two seasons.

Love how Merson said we were great considering he said last week our team was pretty terrible and it was only because Pardew was doing such a good job that we were in the top 10 ahead of Stoke who in his head are miles better!!

I hope we get Garde in who allows us to play with freedom and we start spanking some of these awful teams at home starting with Hull in 2 weeks !!

Sissoko issuing a come and get me plea to Arsenal well I hope we dont sell him for anything less than 25 million and then have other bonuses for appearances and sell on after think he would be good for them but he wouldnt be the star man as he does not have the touch or the shooting ability so would be a dear bench warmer

Summer will be the real tester for us, Collo will be gone,Tayls will still be in rehab. We have the lad from Forest coming in but he’s very hot and cold as I’ve seen both he and Darlow are nothing to write home about. Willo should be got rid of. Maybe Good will come through along with Streete and Satko.

They were trying to pay for their new stadium so everyone that had value was sold off each year to balance the books, kind of like our situation except they had a good reason for doing it instead of just lining fatmans pockets.

He will do well for us, i know 3 or 4 Lyon fans and they all still rate him and he left on good terms, doesnt happen much nowadays.

Plus as mentioned Monaco and PSG came in with the money as went crazy, if they hadnt then Garde could have won them the league.

Just get him in, get the fatman out and finally things are looking up.

JDdubai, we have seen many times the grass isnt always greener for these players who want to do a moonlight flit, that said, who knows a new forward thinking manager and we may be up there in a few years with players wanting to come to us, (yea i know we can deram)at the min we are a stepping stone as such, we know that, i suppose these french clubs will look at us the way we look at the Gooners and the like, we are just a rung down at the moment, can we get on the next rung, well thats up to the man at the top, has he real ambition or is it still just an angle of getting more publicity for SD and growing that product which after all is his main concern.

Only managed match of the day and thought cabella done well. I just wish he could strike a ball hard as his shots are less than tame. Regarding sissoko all quotes are different. The echo are saying he said nufc aren’t a big club yet he does not say that in any of his quotes. Lazy journo’s although i do expect him to move on to bigger and better things sometime in the near future.

anthc, Cabella was delicious in that first half, and second half he did not stop grafting, Mourinho literally told his players to do a hatchet job on the kid, 2 n 3 defenders on him all the time and some pretty bad tackles as well, Matic could have been off for one of them.

If we can bring a couple of players in???? young Aarons gets back flying we can still have a good season, loads of ifs and butts and a bit of positivity from the beefman.

Carroll made a stupid mistake going to l’pool and has been injured a lot since but the form he’s in of late is a great asset to any team. Scored a wonder goal yesterday and is up the table with the big boys. All because the owner has strengthened well. Of course they got lucky that the new lads started well and the team gelled. They have a good balance of power,height and speed in the team. They don’t play pretty football but their effective. Most teams that struggle to get points and go on a poor run usually come to us and get three points. Hull will probably do the same.

TRANSLATION—————Questioned by Téléfoot, asked about a more prestigious team. “The transfer window is open things can change from one day to the next, but I do not think about this, if anything needs to be done it will be done, otherwise I am in Newcastle. Sign for a bigger club is my dream, but I do not know when it will happen, “he assured.The midfielder wants to stay in England. “Staying in England is my priority. Arsenal? If Arsene Wenger calls me good. Arsenal is my club at heart. “Someday I will want to “go higher” and “play Champions League,”

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Transfers Summer 2017

Player

Fee

Club

INCOMING

Christian Atsu

£6.2M

Chelsea

Florian Lejeune

£8.8M

Eibar

Jacob Murphy

£10M

Norwich

Javier Manquillo

£4.5M

Atletico Madrid

Mikel Merino

£2.5M Loan – season

Borussia Dortmund

Kenedy

Loan – season – pending

Chelsea

Joselu

£5.0M

Stoke City

Transfer Fees In

£37.0M

OUTGOING

Vurnon Anita

Released

Aston Villa

Sammy Ameobi

Released

Bolton

Haris Vuckic

Released

FC Twente

Lubo Satka

Released

FC DAC 1904

Florian Thauvin

£10.0M

Marseille

Kevin Mbabu

£1.0M

Young Boys

Matz Sels

Loan – season

Anderlecht

Yoan Gouffran

Released

Goztepe

Adam Armstrong

Loan – season

Bolton

Lewis Gibson

£1.0M Up to £5M in add-ons

Everton

Daryl Murphy

£2.0M

Nottingham Forest

Ivan Toney

Loan – season

Wigan Athletic

Transfer Fees Out

£14.0M

Net Spend

£23M

Preseason Friendlies 2017

Club

Location

Date

Hearts Won 2-1

Tynecastle

Friday 14th July 7:45pm

Preston Drew 1-1

Deepdale

Saturday 22nd July 3:00pm

Bradford Won 4-0

Valley Parade

Wednesday 26th July 7:30pm

Mainz 05 Lost 2-1

Opel Arena, Mainz

Saturday 29th July 4:00 pm local time

Wolfsburg Won 3-1

AOK Stadium, Wolfsburg

Wednesday 2nd August 4:00pm local time

Hellas Verona Wopn 2-0

St. James’ Park

Sunday 6th August 3:00pm

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